About Dragonfly Thinking
Dragonfly combines domain expertise, structured analytical methodology, and AI-native workflows to help organisations make better decisions under uncertainty.
Dragonfly Thinking started with a friendship and a shared frustration. Anthea Roberts and Miranda Forsyth — both interdisciplinary academics — kept watching complex problems get reduced to siloed analysis and polarised debates. In geoeconomics, Anthea saw this in the tensions between economic and security framing. In the Pacific, Miranda saw this in simplified explanations about what causes violence.
They knew the best thinking happened when you held multiple perspectives in tension and considered the systemic interaction of multiple drivers. Anthea had spent a career studying how people see the same problems through different lenses. Miranda has focused on how different elements interacted to create complex effects. When generative AI arrived, they saw an opportunity to make multi-perspective analysis and systems analysis practical at scale, not just an academic ideal.
Dragonfly won Australia's inaugural AI Sprint in 2024. Since then, the team has grown to include Sue Brake as Chair, bringing three decades of institutional investment experience and pioneering work on the Total Portfolio Approach. They are joined by an interdisciplinary team of designers and AI-native practitioners, creating a new type of company for a new age of intelligence.

Miranda Forsyth and Anthea Roberts, co-founders

Founder, Director & CEO
Built Dragonfly's analytical methodology — 80+ skills, 15+ agents, structured multi-lens synthesis. Ranked the world's leading international law scholar by League of Scholars (2019). Author of Six Faces of Globalization (FT and Fortune Best Book, 2021). Has taught at ANU, Harvard, Columbia and LSE.

Chair of the Board & Investment Vertical Lead
Pioneer of the Total Portfolio Approach to investing. Former Chief Investment Officer of Australia's A$300 billion Future Fund Management Agency. Leads Dragonfly Investing, integrating TPA discipline with the platform for sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and endowments.

Co-Founder & Director
Interdisciplinary socio-legal professor with expertise spanning law and society, Pacific islands justice and governance, legal pluralism, and complexity theory. Has taught at the ANU and the University of the South Pacific. Leads Dragonfly Learning's executive education approach, collaborating across research and practitioner networks globally.

Chief Operating Officer
Executive spanning investment, insurance, banking, and government. Former Chief People & Culture Officer at the Future Fund during its expansion from $70B to $240B. Led the $7.9B Suncorp-Promina merger integration.

AI workflows and education
Spends most days wiring up agents and tools the team uses. Background in complex systems and philosophy, with a decade in startups before this.

AI workflows and design
Interdisciplinary designer with experience in enterprise technology, agencies, startups, and government. Background in architecture and interaction design. Track record in award-winning applications across sectors.

AI workflows and project management
10+ years in startups and SMEs with a finance and entrepreneurship background. Experience across membership, operations, marketing, and sales. Leads pilot engagement and business development.
Advisor
Former Chief Economist, BHP
Advisor
Air Vice-Marshal (Ret.), National resilience
Advisor
Harvard Law School